Marriage (Scotland) Act 1856
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1856 c. 96 |
| Year | 1856 |
(19 & 20 Vict.) C A P. XCVI.
[29th July 1856]
'WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the Law touching Marriages inScotland :' Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows:
I Marriages in Scotland not to be valid without Residence.
I. After the Thirty-first Day ofDecember One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, no irregular Marriage contracted in Scotland by Declaration, Acknowledgment, or Ceremony shall be valid, unless One of the Parties had at the Date thereof his or her usual Place of Residence there, or had lived in Scotland for Twenty-one Days next preceding such Marriage; any Law, Custom, or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding.
II Certificated Copy of Entry by Sheriff Depute that Parties were married, and that One of them lived in Scotland Twenty-one Days preceding such Marriage, conclusive as to its Validity.
II. If any Persons who shall have contracted an irregular Marriage inScotland after the Day and Year aforesaid shall within Three Months thereafter present a joint Application for a Warrant to register such Marriage to the Sheriff or Sheriff Substitute of the County where such Marriage was contracted, and shall prove to his Satisfaction that they have been married to one another, and that One of them had lived in Scotland for Twenty-one Days next preceding such Marriage, or had his or her usual Residence in Scotland at the Date thereof, such Sheriff or Sheriff Substitute shall certify the same under his Hand, and shall thereupon grant Warrant to the Registrar of the Parish or Burgh in which the Marriage was contracted, who shall forthwith enter such Marriage in the Register of Marriages kept by him, in Terms of an Act of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Years of Her present Majesty, Chapter Eighty; and any certified Copy of such Entry, signed by such Registrar, and which such Registrar is hereby required and empowered to give, charging for the same the Sum of Five Shillings, shall be received in...
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